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<p>Played ball for about 30 minutes and then went to the spa to soak in very hot water for anout 15 minutes. While sitting at the dinner table, the pain suddenly started and could barely walk for that night. I was thinking the soak in hot tub inflamed the old injury. </p>
<p>Did not go to the spa again. Could play ball the rest of the week but always felt the pain. Getting better every day. That is why I think it was the hot tub.</p>
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<p>Yep. Around December 15th or so is probably when gym memberships start climbing. Actual attendance may pick up right after Christmas or right after the 1st of the year.</p>
<p>1.3 miles, 4 to go.</p>
<p>Received my new insurance information and looked at it today. On page two are Coverage Examples. The first is for having a baby, the second for Managing type 2 diabetes. Here’s the second:</p>
<p>Prescriptions $2,900
Medical Equipment & Supplies $1,300
Office Visits and Procedures $700
Education $300
Laboratory tests $100
Vaccines, other preventive $100</p>
<p>Total $5,400</p>
<p>Patient pays:</p>
<p>Deductibles $0
Co-pays $470
Co-insurance $0
Limits or exclusions $80</p>
<p>Total $550</p>
<p>Pretty expensive disease at $5,500 for routine care costs.</p>
<p>I saw an estimate that there are about 26 million people in the US with diabetes. Proper care for all of those people would be very expensive. I’d rather spend it on tech clothes.</p>
<p>No kidding, BC.</p>
<p>I typed up a long post about my hike, but it got swallowed by cc 
I feel like a total cc rookie. I will type the stuff again and post, because this was such an amazing, once in a lifetime experience! Mr B, who initially resisted the idea, decided to join me when I said that I would do it alone (totally doable).</p>
<p>I ran 3 miles on the path alone the sea this morning, but the concrete was wet and dusted with fine sand from the beach, so it was quite slick and dangerous. I decided to check out the local gym for tomorrow’s run and was very pleased with what I saw. I’d rather run on a dreadmill than risk getting an injury.</p>
<p>Definitely want to hear about the Kapalau Trail hike! I’ve watched the videos. I don’t think I could do the cliffs at the 7 mile mark… </p>
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<p>BC:</p>
<p>The shame of it is that Type 2 diabetes is totally preventable in the vast majority of cases. I’m sure there’s a genetic pre-dispostion, but it’s still self-inflicted insulin resistance. Cut, the sugar, watch the carbs, and a little exercise…</p>
<p>Too much Christmas, not enough exercise – although I sure felt like it yesterday after standing on my feet cooking from 9:00 am until 6:00 pm when I carved the turkey!</p>
<p>I probably spent at least $300-$500 a month to manage osteoarthritis this year.
Mostly for pain meds, including medical marijuana, ( which works better than Tramadol but more expensive) but also on injections, and tests as well as acupuncture and massage.</p>
<p>Only my xrays/mris were covered- none of the alternative therapies were covered by our insurance, although acupuncture and massage are established treatments.
[Acupuncture</a> for Osteoarthritis of the Knee Study Results | NCCAM](<a href=“http://nccam.nih.gov/research/results/acu-osteo.htm]Acupuncture”>http://nccam.nih.gov/research/results/acu-osteo.htm)</p>
<p>Haven’t gone on any hikes yet- I did walk to the mall from the hotel to meet my daughters, and youngest talked oldest into going for a run.;)</p>
<p>Did my weights today. The gym was busier than normal.</p>
<p>Walked with neighbors this morning. Then stepped on scale – 118. Down five pounds. I have never understood how anyone gains this season. It’s like running a marathon to get thru the month of December.</p>
<p>DH and I shoveled out the driveway cause our son is out of the country. I’d forgotten what a good workout shoveling wet snow is! Every year I have to be reminded…</p>
<p>Snow drizzle, greyness, windy, 33 degrees- couldn’t decide whether to get on the dreadmill for the first time since April 5 or suck it up and run outside. Went with outside- 4.2 done. I was dressed warmly, so it was really OK except for large puddles of water from all the rain last night that needed to be avoided.</p>
<p>I wimped out and ran my 4 miles inside. When it gets too snowy, I don’t like the way the ice builds up in the heels of my running shoes. Felt good, even with the occasional hack/cough. My favorite Christmas gift — My new ankle weights to help with my knee strengthening excercises!</p>
<p>Miserable weather here today - snow, sleet, rain, nasty. Didn’t stop sabadog from demanding exercise. So we had playtime in the backyard - playing chase and running through wet snow is a workout. </p>
<p>Weight is stable in spite of some holiday indulgences (boeuf bourguignon and a few cookies). Higher than normal consumption of salty food, but no eating until I felt like exploding.</p>
<p>One hour of tennis which didn’t go that well because I was preoccupied with some contract stuff. Amazing how stuff can get in your head when you’re doing something completely unrelated.</p>
<p>Yay! Got in a good workout in the Basement Gym 2.0. In between afternoon matinee of Django with my daughter (what a movie!), leftover turkey, and an evening high-def Tarantino twin bill of Inglorious Basterds, along with a 1970 Warre’s Vintage Port.</p>
<p>The scale was kind to me this morning after Christmas turkey. The vintage port, however, is neither low cal nor low carb.</p>
<p>The combo: curl/squat/press killed me. Chin ups were pretty good, though.</p>
<p>i feel in good company. i went to a Marriott, with my sneaks, gym clothes, and a bathing suit for hot tub. alas, not to be. hot tub outside, not heated. the hotel in construction area. all i got to do was measly 3 mile walk and occasional. walks around neighborhood of the soon-to-be-in-laws (sotil).
it would be nice to blame qnd excuse, but still,…</p>
<p>Went to be around 11:00 last night. My wife came in shortly thereafter. It was strange - she was talking but I couldn’t make out the words. I tried to talk too but I’m not sure if I actually said anything. My wife told me that she couldn’t understand what I was trying to say.</p>
<p>This sort of thing happens when I play tennis but don’t eat enough. There was food last night (tofu, rice, vegetables) but I didn’t feel like eating it. I was very hungry but wanted something else. I’ve had this sort of thing happen to me for a long time since my early 20s. I’d need two extra large pizzas after a hard workout to get enough calories. It does make for a very restful sleep.</p>
<p>Got to play with my new toys this morning. Ton of snow overnight, predicted to change over to rain, so I went out at 9:00 am after shovelling the car out and did about a mile of snowshoeing all around the condo property. </p>
<p>Pretty fun. Not as hard as I expected it to be. Just have to go slow and deliberate. I broke trail on fresh snow, sinking in about 1 inch (heavy wet snow). On the way back, I followed my own tracks, which was a bit easier. Felt like it’s probably a pretty good hip workout.</p>
<p>The only tricky part is that you have to be careful turning around.</p>
<p>I think that we got about five inches but it was heavy and wet. I went into work this morning - probably shouldn’t have - it took me about twice the usual time to get in and the office is almost deserted.</p>
<p>Sounds like fun on the snowshoes but I imagine that it’s possible to turn an ankle. It looks like freezing rain out there right now. I think that it’s supposed to warm up quite a bit this afternoon so I’m hoping for a lot of melting as the forecast for the next week is fairly cool. I will probably do some work on the roof this evening to try to avoid potential ice dams. In general, five inches of snow isn’t enough to cause ice dams but this is heavy and wet and it’s not going to melt quickly. The bigger problem is snowstorms every few days along with temps that aren’t high enough to do a lot of melting.</p>
<p>I guess I can count clearing off the car as exercise. My snow brush wasn’t very useful for that. Using my arm to sweep away the snow was a lot more effective.</p>
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<p>Inglorius Basterds is one of my all-time favorite movies. I saw it in a movie theater on Nantucket and the entire audience went crazy when the bad guy (Landa) switches sides and says he’s going to help the basterds, if he can have his military pension and a house on Nantucket Island!! </p>
<p>I’ve got a cold and feel achy–something I must have picked up from my daughter and son-in-law, both of whom had the same symptoms. Took yesterday and today off–hoping to go to the gym tomorrow and do some weights and walking on the thread mill. Icy roads in my area, so walking outside tomorrow isn’t really an option.</p>